Green 4 - 1 Wanderers (390054504)

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and Crosspool Stadium saw a crowd turnout of 50259. Koulis Kaliakatsos was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Dragan Vasilic and Zenon Jędrzejak. A 2-5-3 alignment was the formation of choice for Green. The following players took the field: Hiraki - Peters, Izmendi - Frahm, Di Pierno, Spanidis, Lanzoni, Marzewski - Szok, Rocamora, Åhén.

Wanderers started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Sollo - Buurstee, Trotman, Rauchenwald - Petrov, Pappalardo, Tyyskä, Ratcliff, Kubišta - Szermowski, Nagappan.

X. Rocamora of Green was able to make an impressive rush past the sluggish P. Trotman, which resulted in a goal making the score 1 - 0. D. Kubišta's early cross saw the defenders caught out of position and the alert H. Nagappan was able to pounce and roll the ball past the hapless goalkeeper to score for Wanderers. 1 - 1. K. Åhén gave Green the lead as he successfully challenged the guests' central defenders, then slotted the ball into the bottom corner, giving the keeper no chance. 2 - 1 Wanderers's A. Ratcliff refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon after 19 minutes. A great save by keeper J. Sollo after 28 minutes kept the visitors in the game after X. Rocamora struck from the left with a real cannonball. With 29 minutes played, Green put themselves up 3 - 1 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to K. Åhén, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. Green's J. Peters had an excellent opportunity after 38 minutes, shooting after receiving a pass from the right hand side, but he missed the goal by miles! Halftime score was 3 - 1. Green enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 67 percent of possession.

After 54 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by X. Rocamora might have resulted in another goal for Green. However, J. Sollo made a spectacular save. Wanderers's V. Buurstee left the field after 59 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was M. Schenderling. A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of Green to 4 - 1 as J. Szok finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle. The players of Green now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. Wanderers had to make a substitution after 71 minutes. B. Pappalardo limped off the field and was replaced by E. Ballumbrosio. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, H. Nagappan got himself booked. The manager of Wanderers was not happy. Green's I. Spanidis was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 82 minutes. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Green, with 69 percent of the ball.

Green's best player was K. Åhén. B. Frahm turned in a dismal performance, however. The most dominating Wanderers player was without a doubt H. Nagappan. On the other hand, M. Schenderling's play was disheartening. The match ends 4 - 1.